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Portrait of Lucy May Cranwell

Collectors

Lucy May Cranwell

New Zealand botanist · 1907–2000

791 specimens, collected between 1909 and 1941 on 81 collecting days, now held in 2 departments.

On the labels as Cranwell, L.M., L.M. Cranwell, L.W. Cranwell, Lucy May Cranwell, Cranwell, L. M..

Specimens
791
Type specimens
58
Years in the field
33
Islands
6
Species
389
Identifications
0
In the Library
0
Named after
2

Where Cranwell collected

Specimens by decade

1900s1940s

Earliest: Campylopus hawaiicus, 1909 (Kauaʻi). Latest: Cladonia skottsbergii, 1941.

Named for Cranwell

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Cranwell. The naming author’s intent is not recorded, so where several collectors share a surname they are listed under the best-known one.

From the field

Plantago pachyphyllaCampylopus laxitextusCampylopus hawaiicusCheirodendron trigynumDryopteris wallichianaStenogrammitis saffordiiAdenophorus hymenophylloidesClermontia grandifloraClermontia faurieiRacomitrium pruinosumCyrtandra paludosaPsychotria hexandra